How Military Guns Make the Civilian Market

The U.S. Army plans to select a new standard-issue handgun. If history is a guide, similar pistols will soon start appearing at gun stores and crime scenes near you. This week, the U.S. Army will brief arms manufacturers on the design requirements for a new standard-issue handgun. Several gun makers will compete for the lucrative contract, developing weapons that are more reliable and more powerful than those currently in service. Officials say the upgrade is overdue—it’s been nearly 30 years since the Army adopted the Beretta M9. But the last time the military challenged the industry to make a better handgun, all the innovations intended for the battlefield also ended up in the consumer market, and the severity of civilian shootings soared. Studying gunshot injuries...

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What are the nominees for the 2016 Best Picture Oscar?

Watch the trailers and read our guide to the Academy's favourite eight films of the yearThe Oscar nominees for Best PictureTelegraph Film2 February 2016 • 7:00amThe bookies suggest that this year will see a tussle between the bombastic bankers of The Big Short and the hungry hacks of Spotlight. But could the technical achievements of The Revenant or the box-office-slaying success of The Martian win out on the day? Below is everything you need to know about the eight nominated films.The Big ShortThe Big ShortCredit: Jaap BuitendijkThe story: Michael Lewis's 2010 bestseller about the 2007 financial crash is adapted by director Adam McKay (Anchorman, Step Brothers) into a free-wheeling comedy about the men who bet against the overheated US housing...

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Mel Gibson Makes Surprise Appearance at 'Mad Max' Premiere

Getty Images While Tom Hardy might be the new Max Rockatansky in director George Miller'supcoming Mad Max: Fury Road, the man who originated the iconic character, Mel Gibson, showed there was no bad blood when he made a surprise appearance at the film's Hollywood premiere on Thursday. Getty Images Gibson, looking happy and healthy, posed with Miller and Hardy on the red carpet, and the trio were all smiles. Getty Images Side by side with the new Mad Max, it’s almost hard not to imagine the next installment featuring the actors playing father-and-son Rockatanskys. Getty Images Gibson's surprise appearance on the carpet made waves at the star-studded premiere, held at the legendary Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. Nicholas...

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Zoe Kravitz, Lisa Bonet, Mel Gibson, Charlize Theron & More Attend MAD MAX Premiere

(lt to rt)Hugh Keays-Byrne, Nathan Jones, Charlize Theron, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Tom Hardy, Riley Keough, Megan Gale, Zoe Kravitz, Josh Helman, Courtney Eaton and Abbey Lee for the premiere. MAD MAX: FURY ROAD Premiere where Zoe Kravitz and mom Lisa Bonet, Charlize Theron, Tom Hardy and even a surprise appearance by the original “MAX,” Mel Gibson attended. Check out some photos after the jump and don’t forget… MAD MAX: FURY ROAD in theaters on 5.15.15 in 3D!! xoxo Mel Gibson and Tom Hardy Zoe Kravitz wearing Valentino Zoe Kravitz and Nicholas Hoult Charlize Theron wearing Dior Lisa Bonet and husband Jason Momoa Rosie Huntington-Whiteley is wearing a Rodarte top and...

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‘Mad Max’ creator: Why I cut Mel Gibson from ‘Fury Road’

Director George Miller, Tom Hardy and Mel Gibson arrive at the premiere of "Mad Max: Fury Road" on May 7 in Hollywood.Photo: WireImage It may have been the most fortuitous street-crossing since The Beatles’ “Abbey Road.” Back in 1998, director George Miller was walking across a Los Angeles intersection when an idea for a new “Mad Max” film struck him. By the time he’d reached the middle of the street, he had a kernel of a story. And by the time he reached the other side, he swore to himself he’d abandon it. He’d already made three movies set in that universe — 1979’s “Mad Max,” 1981’s “The Road Warrior” and 1985’s “Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome” — and Miller thought he’d said all he had to say about the dust-choked, post-apocalyptic...

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The New Mad Max: Fury Road Trailer Is Explosive, Violent And Crazier Than You'd Imagine

"My world is fire and blood." After the roar of a car engine, these are the words used to re-introduce us to the road warrior known as Max (played in a new film by the vicious Tom Hardy). A new Mad Max: Fury Road clip just dropped. Rev it up below:  "Everybody’s gone out of their mind." Yes, it certainly looks that way as we get out first return trip to George Miller’s post-apocalyptic, road-rage-driven universe last seen in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. The faces might be different – with Tom Hardy subbing in for a much older Mel Gibson at this point – but the physicality and the muscle-car madness that has made the Road Warrior series so memorable seem to be dialed up to extreme levels. More than anything,...

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Mel Gibson May Get His Own Taken, Titled Blood Father

Mel Gibson is back! Maybe! Possibly! Gibson's had a pretty bad decade, all things considered. Ten years ago, he set the industry aflame with The Passion of The Christ, and it's been downhill since. Now the guy's basically un-hirable, and no one wants to work with him. Can he turn it around with a collaboration with a filmmaker from abroad? Wouldn't it be best if, like other actors, he could just get a Taken?Gibson is in talks to star in the awesomely-titled Blood Father, according to Deadline. Gibson would play an ex-con who tries to protect his 16 year old daughter from drug dealers. That's some seedy offspring there, Mad Max! The script comes from Peter Craig, who previously wrote The Town, and it is coming together...

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